Mc Nelly Torres
Independent Investigative Journalist
Independent Investigative Journalist
A journalist shares key lessons from reporting on the Puerto Rican government's failed responses to a dangerous disease that spread after two hurricanes ravaged the island.
Three days after Hurricane María, Isolina Miranda stared in disbelief at what was left of the two-story building where a community health center once stood in the heart of San Lorenzo, a town in Puerto Rico.
How Congress and the White House refuse to fund health care to the hurricane-ravaged island’s desperately poor.
Six months after the storm, Saturnino Figueroa Montes, 64, spent two weeks fighting something doctors couldn’t diagnose after conducting multiple tests. A retired carpenter of Mamey, a rural neighborhood in Patillas, he went into cardiac arrest after he was hospitalized.
Puerto Rico was facing a health care crisis long before Hurricane Maria hit last year. The storm has made the problems much worse.